[OSM-talk] OSM needs a measure for completeness

Dair Grant dair at refnum.com
Sat Jan 12 18:53:45 GMT 2008


Frederik Ramm wrote:

>>There are places in OSM where there is no data; these are
>>obviously incomplete.
>
>How would you know ;-) there are places which are complete with
>nothing on them!

Good point! Which makes it all the more important to have a 
mechanism for marking it as such, if only to reduce the number 
of people who make pointless trips to the middle of nowhere to 
confirm there's nothing there...


-dair (although given enough pointless trips, you would create a 
de-facto footpath - problem solved! ;-)
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